Improvement in music-racks



C. L. ELY.

Music Ranks.

NO. 134,530. Patented Jan. 7, 1873.

AMPHOTO-LITHOGRAFH/O cauxmsaonuzls P5005354,

FFICE CALVIN L. ELY, OF BRANFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN MUSIC-RACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,530, dated January 7, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN L. ELY, ot' Bra-nford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Music-Racks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents, in

Figure 1, a front View, and in Fig. 2 a transverse section on line as w.

This invention relates to a device for extending the music-rack on organs and similar musical instruments so that the sheet of music placed thereon will not break over the top of the rack, as in the usual construction. The music-rack proper is necessarily made low in order to close within the case. This invention consists in a device to be set upon the top of the rack, and constructed with an elas' tic clamping device to secure the extension to the rack.

A is the top of an ordinary music-rack. My extension is formed from wire bent into any desirable form, substantially as seen in Fig. 1, and upon the lower edge loops B are attached, which are elastic, so as to clasp the top part of the rack, as seen in Fig. 2, and so that while holding the extension in position the extension may easily be taken from the rack when desired. This extension supports the sheets of music, which would otherwise be liable to break down over the rack, or necessitate the placing of a book behind the sheets.

I claim as my invention- An extension for the music-rack of musical instruments, substantially such as described, provided with loops or olasps B, by which the extension is attached to the rack proper, as herein set forth.

CALVIN L. ELY.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITs, J. H. SI-IUMWAY. 

